New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-06
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"The Congrcgationalist' grimly suggests the fol-
lowing az an appi' pirate name for some cmfches :
Tho society for the Promotion of hcnics Progressive
Euchre arties and Theatrical Entertainments, sue
cessor Antioch Disciples Association Vi ohris
tan Character and Gospel Work.
A lowell minister preached last Sunday on "Vhy
do the wicked liver We don't KNOW sureii WI" ny
they do, but We might suggest mildly that II uho
wicket didn't live, It would bea cold day iof INC
minis ters.-(sOmorvilio Journal
Tho astonishing stat .icnt Is made that several
books have been suppressed In Paris on account Oh
their impure character. Verify, If this has actually
happened In the French capital there is hope for the
morals OF tho world.
yermont's centennial will occur in 1891.
1t does se,'I humilIatlng to see pugllist pocket
more money In year than al g iheu p,cher
commanding salary than university PROFESSOR,
a ny-catchcr''- exceeding the earning ~ railroad
president, anda mounte1ank comedian VINO o1san ~
acting as a COW, drawing larger income thah uio
President OF the United States.-(lowell COnrier'
SAWS Prentice milford You live better In
Boston on a. a week than you can In New-fork Tor
sl2 You can buy more baked beans in Boston or
10 cents than I'm New-York for 20 cents You can
get I'm Boston a roomier street and cleaner ono
and a slower one, and nearly always civil reply from
tho conductor You have in Boston more girl waters
at tho restaurants and more sass from them lou
have In Boston better average sunday sel'On, es-
pecaIIy II YOU hear Phillip Brooks, who breaches In
him. and manages 10 sugarcoat liberal Pill that
Cotton Mather himself would not know what he'd
roally swallowed. Brooks doesn't toll whae he
breaches; he simply breaches It, It's astonishing
what people will take from NIe pulpit so long as
they're told the label the bottle they Ike IL,
too. IL slips down easier than the old birthstone"
A Kankakee man received 81 100 for two carloads
Of Elephant recently shipped to Chicago.
There Is a negro preacher at Crawford, Ca. who
has 10 legs, being hauled around town In wagon
The first baby born In South Sioux city, Ncb;,
was given seronadc by the banI and presented with
drove Of hogs at Inckton H., attacked little
son of Farmer Truman, and would have deyoured hiin
II the farmer aud others had not come TO his aid.
George Weaver, II Astoria H., struck an old FOX
with bullet hard that II dropped the rabbit IL was
carrying aud both lOped out oi sisht oeiore "oo'so
Esteilne OAK, feels proud because the running
expenses Of the town only S4S last year.
little elgh year-old boy Of Salt Lake City started
out the other day to iecomo a sheep-raser because
The western idea begins to shoot pretty early;
IIells Bond ILL.,, has been changed to Pleasant
Horse doctors In Milwaukee mako moro money
than doctors Of the human race
ABOUT THIS TIME
When swift through glade and meadow green,
Trips the llghtfooted dawn,
The mower from his sumber wakes,
Springs nom his bed, his toilet males,
And soon the noise Of his machine
Is heard upon the lawn
Then farewell sleep, tho friend OF mani
1t takes It's leave OF u.s. -,
We toss and turn and groan and sigh
In vain. We cannot close an eye,
And we pronounce tho mower an
Unmitigated cuss ~ o,
A New-York correspondent Of an out-of-town paper
makes tho startling statement that there are 100000
adults in this city who not members of any church.
Matter-offact Lady pointing to art treasured
That's real cute -,
EnthusIast~Ycsl its nearly 600 years OLD. ,,
yin
nobody would know II you didn't tell, ana us ro@
prgl,y an I is moved to tearsown Topics
rh. nronosed Alabama state University for the
higher education OF the negro VIII probably DO 10
catod Mt Montgomery Says "The Advertiser of that
city: "The cOored people of Montgomery have
shown a than commendable disposition 10 neip
themselves They have raised subscription OK
s3 OoO which, In proportion to their means, Is moro
liberal than tho whites would be Or similar pur-
poso They wisely determined to help themselves
before asking help from the whites. Now that they
have done 50, their white friends ought to make
liberal answer to their appeal for help
Every few weeks somebody dies from an orange
seed lodged In the appendix SeImiformis When
Colonel Ipgorsol gets chance to make man he viii
probability omit the uperiiuity.-tWashihgton fos''
THE TnIpUNsp London correspondent hints that
tho Jubilee preparations may iniuIe Westminster ABB
bey apart from tho danger Of fire that may arise IL
certain plans of Illumination arc carried out. Any
misfortune TO this famous edi1ce would DO lasting
blot upon the hftleth year OF Victona's reign.
A mlsslonary I'm Africa found heather tribe wor-
shipping an Episcopal piayorbr k, aud was enc0ur-
aged TO think that his lines hqd fallen In Pheasant
places lle wanted TO go home when he learned that
Inc heather hal adopted the OOk AZ an Idol, on
account Of Its gded edges, after eating tho mlsscn-
any Who owned it.-(NOTlstown Herald
some one having started the rumor that The New
York Freeman's Journal of this city, was about 90
become an afternoon Catholic daily, the editor Of
MT nanor aficallu renllns that